drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn) (10/08/90)
Since upgrading to SunOS 4.1 on my main mail machine, I have been plagued with obscure mail problems that I believe I have tracked to /bin/mail, the actual delivery agent. I can demonstrate unusual behavior by the SunOS binmail program that does not occur with the delivermail program available from UCB in the sendmail v5.64 release as binmail/binmail.c. Unfortunatley, the UCB and SunOS programs use different file locking protocols on the incoming mail spool file so I suspect that I would have to replace all mail-proccesing programs if I wanted to replace the SunOS program with its UCB counterpart. Does anyone have patches for the UCB version to allow it to do file locking like the SunOS version or can anyone indicate the changed needed? Thanx, David David Linn, System Manager/Postmaster |INET: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu Vanderbilt University School of Engineering|Phone: [+1] 615-343-6164 Post Office Box 3241, Station B |Disclaimer: Nashville, TN, USA 37235 | I speak only for myself.